Detail View: SHIMMER: Roehampton Housing Estate

Title: 
Roehampton Housing Estate
Creation Date: 
1955
Image Date: 
1960
Period: 
20th century
Start Date: 
1952
End Date: 
1959
Location: 
London
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Display Creator: 
LONDON CITY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS
Image ID: 
09-1119
Description: 
Exterior view: Four of five blocks. Location: Alton West Estate, adjacent to Richmond Park. [photographed on July 31, 1960]
Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
Related Information: 
Duncan Horne, an architect, left a collection of slide transparencies on his death. These were donated to Sheffield Hallam University's Slide Collection by his daughter in 2007. Duncan Horne trained in Liverpool, and then worked in London for Maxwell FRY, Jane DREW, and Partners. He moved to Australia in 1965 where he worked with Bert HELY.
Photographed by: 
Duncan Horne
Creator: 
LONDON CITY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS
Creator Role: 
Architects' Department.
Nationality: 
British.
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- 1900-2000
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Housing -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Apartments -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Modernism (Architecture)